There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories: “Very entertaining. . . . As this compelling collection reminds us, it’s an awfully strange world out there.” —Chicago Tribune "The epigraph that begins Charles Baxter’s new collection of stories, THERE’S SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO DO, is a quote from Primo Levi. It says, in part, that “everyone’s moral universe, suitably interpreted, comes to be identified with the sum of his former experiences, and so represents an abridged form of his biography.” Which is another way of stating that just about everyone is a mass of contradictions, and that all of us cover the spectrum of moral qualities. Everyone is a combination of virtue and vice, and the distinction between the two is often blurrier than one might suppose." - Book Reporter As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, responsibilities, and obsessions, Baxter unveils the remarkable in what might otherwise be the seemingly inconsequential moments of everyday life.